Christian Ludvig von Holten

Christian Ludvig von Holten (29 April 1774 - 21 February 1829) was a Danish military officer and colonial administrator who served as Governor of St. Thomas and St. John in the Danish West Indies from 1815 to 1819 and again in 1820.

Holten was born at Kongsdal as the second-oldest son of Colonel Ghristian Ludvig Holten and Frederikke Sophie de Klaumann.

[1] Holten became a junior lieutenant in the Norwegian Life Regiment in 1790.

In early 1820 (11 February - 31 March), he briefly returned to the post as governor of the islands.

[1] Golten married in 1797 to Dorothea von Haxthausen (1778 on St. Croix-1842).He owned the plantation Frydendal in the years around 1816.